
Thomas Cole Painting Reproductions Gallery 1 of 2
1801-1848English (Active in America) Hudson River School Painter
Thomas Cole (February 1, 1801 - February 11, 1848) was a nineteenth century American artist. Cole is regarded as the founder of the Hudson River School, an American art movement that flourished in the mid-19th century and was concerned with the realistic and detailed portrayal of nature.
He was born at Bolton, Lancashire in England. In 1819 the family emigrated to America, settling first in Philadelphia and then at Steubenville, Ohio, where Cole learned the rudiments of his profession from a wandering portrait painter. He went about the local country painting portraits, but with little financial success. Moving to New York in 1825, he displayed some landscapes in the window of an eating-house, where they attracted the attention of the painter John Trumbull, who sought him out, bought one of his canvases, and found him patrons. From this time Cole was prosperous.
Cole was primarily a painter of landscapes, but he also painted allegorical works. The most famous of these are a series of four canvases representing The "Voyage of Life", and another series of five canvases representing "The Course of Empire", now in the collection of the New-York Historical Society.
He held considerable influence on his artistic peers, especially Jasper Francis Cropsey, and Frederick Edwin Church who studied under Cole from 1844 to 1846. Cole spent the years 1829 to 1832 and 1841-1842 abroad, mainly in Italy, and at Florence lived with the sculptor Horatio Greenough. After 1827 he had a studio in the Catskills which furnished the subjects of some of his canvases, and he died at Catskills, New York, on the 11th of February 1848.
36 Paintings of Thomas Cole
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Metropolitan Museum of Art New York USA
View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, ...
$826
$49.24
Minneapolis Institute of Arts Minnesota USA
Landscape
$669
$54.91
Boston Museum of Fine Arts Massachusetts USA
View of the Round Top in the Catskill Mountains
$517
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco California USA
View near the Village of Catskill
$683
$83.50
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco California USA
Peace at Sunset (Evening in the White Moutains)
$677
$100.71
Boston Museum of Fine Arts Massachusetts USA
Expulsion from the Garden of Eden
$838
$87.24
Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington USA
The Subsiding of the Waters of the Deluge
$926
Art Institute of Chicago Illinois USA
Distant View of Niagara Falls
$437
$56.23
Cleveland Museum of Art Ohio USA
View of Florence
$1225
$47.90
Cleveland Museum of Art Ohio USA
View of Schroon Mountain, Essex County, New York, ...
$747
$47.90
Art Institute of Chicago Illinois USA
New England Scenery
$650
$59.40
Boston Museum of Fine Arts Massachusetts USA
The Temple of Segesta with the Artist Sketching
$604
Boston Museum of Fine Arts Massachusetts USA
Sunset in the Catskills
$594
Dallas Museum of Art Texas USA
The Fountain of Vaucluse
$942
$47.90
Boston Museum of Fine Arts Massachusetts USA
River in the Catskills
$791
Detroit Institute of Arts Michigan USA
American Lake Scene
$377
Los Angeles County Museum of Art California USA
L'Allegro
$838
$47.90
Los Angeles County Museum of Art California USA
Il Penseroso
$791
$47.90
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco California USA
Prometheus Bound
$747
$79.24
Amon Carter Museum Texas USA
The Hunter's Return
$660
Rhode Island Museum of Art Providence USA
Genesee Scenery (Poop)
$611
$89.97
Metropolitan Museum of Art New York USA
View on the Catskill (Early Autumn Overall)
$627
$74.81
Metropolitan Museum of Art New York USA
The Titan's Goblet
$460
$48.41
Musee d'Orsay Paris France
The Lonely Cross
$510
$72.60
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